Antiracism
The following list of antiracist resources and research in DH will continue to be updated.
Antiracism and Technology
- Toward Anti-Racist Technical Terminology | The Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (Polity 2019)
Black Digital Humanities
- SNCC Digital Gateway : Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work
- Slave Societies Digital Archive | Vanderbilt University
- Musical Passage : A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica
- Freedom on the Move : Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People
- Freedom Mosaic | National Center for Civil & Human Rights
- comprehensive list of Black digital humanities projects, resources, and events started by members of the Colored Conventions Project
Archival Praxis
- Call for Archivists Supporting Activists | Documenting the Now
- Call for ‘Arctivists’: Art + Activism Against Repression During the Covid-19 Crisis | Human Rights Defender Hub
- resources on “historical and archival documentation on the development and on-going occurrences of student dissent” | Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented)
Tools and Techniques for Protest
- Preparing Your Phone for a Protest | The Markup
- Resource Library for Ethically Filming Protests | Witness.org
- crowdsourced GitHub repository tracking police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests
- Image Scrubber, a browser-based tool for quickly deleting metadata from images and selectively blurring faces and identifiable features
Context and Reading
- Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, led by Professor Ruha Benjamin, “brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation”
- University of Minnesota Press’s “Reading for Racial Justice” open access bookshelf on the Manifold Scholarship platform
- What Higher Education Can Do to Reverse Our Deepening Divides [pdf] | Association of American Colleges and Universities
- T.J. Tallie, “Asymptomatic Lethality: Cooper, COVID-19, and the Potential for Black Death” | Nursing Clio
- Message of Solidarity with further resources and links | Pace Center for Civic Engagement
- The New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
Organizations to Explore
- The Bail Project works with public defenders and community organizations to provide assistance paying bail, court date reminders, transportation, and other support to low-income individuals.
- The Black Alliance for Just Immigration works toward racial, social, and economic justice locally and regionally by engaging with community partners to boost awareness about race, racism, identities, migration, and globalization.
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Campaign Zero
- Loveland Foundation
- National Association of Black Journalists
- Community Justice Exchange
- Up Against the Law Legal Collective
- Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Fund